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Iconologia, ouero, Descrittione di diuerse imagini cauate dall'antichità, & di propria inuentione

by: Ripa, Cesare, fl. 1600

Publication date: 1603
Topics: Symbolism in art, Emblems
Publisher: In Roma : Appresso Lepido Facij
Collection: getty; americana
Contributor: Getty Research Institute
Language: Italian
Item Size: 978.1M

First published Rome, 1593 (reprinted Milan, 1602). This is the first illustrated ed. See Praz

Title within ornamental woodcut border incorporating small port. of Ripa at head. On t.p. verso are the woodcut arms of Lorenzo Salviati, to whom the work is dedicated. The allegorical illustrations have line borders, with additional decorative woodcut borders at right and left

Numerous errors in pagination

Signatures: [dagger] ²[dagger] A-2I 2K

Errata, p. [525]-[527]

Praz, M. 17th-century imagery (2nd ed.)

Library's copy imperfect: leaf 2I1 with p. 501-502 wanting

Binding: 19th-century marbled paper. Sheepskin back and tips. Spine tooled in gilt, including author & title

Ownership inscription on t.p. of Frater Josep. Marie ?Soritius, Ordinis Pred

Notes

No table of contents. Narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text. Some text impossible to capture. Irregular pagination. Misprinted and missing page numbers. Foxing throughout book.